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First announcement and call for proposals & abstracts

2010 IENE International Conference on Ecology and Transportation:  Improving Connections in a Changing Environment

The Infra Eco Network Europe invites you to attend the IENE International Conference on Ecology and Transportation September 27 - October 1, 2010. The conference will take place in Hungary in the lakeside town Velence, 45 km from the Hungarian capital Budapest.

The general theme of conference is "Improving connections in a changing environment". Some major topics will be:

- Policy and planning
- Railways versus roads
- Monitoring and follow up
- Mitigating the impact
- Habitat and landscape effects
- Landscape fragmentation

IENE invites landscape architects, engineers, ecologists and social scientists, planners and stake holders, authorities as well as private companies and NGOs to participate in dialogue and discussion, share experiences and new research, questions and ideas likewise. Student participation and presentations are highly encouraged.

Proposals for additional sessions and workshops are welcomed until 30 October 2009. Abstracts for oral or poster presentations are welcomed until January 17th 2010.

More useful information concerning the conference is provided on the IENE conference website http://www.cbm.slu.se/iene/conf2010/conf2010.php

We thank you for disseminating this information to your local, national and international contacts.

For the IENE secreteriat,

Anna Maria Wremp
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Information officer Swedish Biodiversity Centre
Communicator IENE (Infra Eco Network Europe)
BäcklÜsavägen 10
Box 7007, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
+46 18 67 13 94
+46 70 390 71 03
anna-maria.wremp@cbm.slu.se
www.cbm.slu.se
www.iene.info</a>
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